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john boehner not wanting the president to get all of the limelight, john boehner gave an exclusive one on one interview last night. she wasn't drunk. >> oh, really? >> bill: does anybody believe this? >> i'm the most reasonable responsibility person out here. the president knows he and i can work together. >> bill: i'm the most reasonable man in washington except eric cantor has a gun to my head. >> yeah. >> bill: and to show how totally in denial he is. >> i think this has been the host misreported story of my two years. we don't have a tea party caucus to speak of in the house. >> bill: maybe he should tell michele bachmann that who started the tea party caucus in the house. and tell the 63 tea party republicans that there is no tea party in the house. >> what is he doing? >> bill: i don't know. and again, all they do is lie. michele bachmann started the tea party caucus. maybe they don't always get their way, he can say, but they do. it is the tail wagging the dog we have seen that for the last two years under john boehner. he is not a bad guy, but he is not a leader, and he is not
john boehner not wanting the president to get all of the limelight, john boehner gave an exclusive one on one interview last night. she wasn't drunk. >> oh, really? >> bill: does anybody believe this? >> i'm the most reasonable responsibility person out here. the president knows he and i can work together. >> bill: i'm the most reasonable man in washington except eric cantor has a gun to my head. >> yeah. >> bill: and to show how totally in denial he is....
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the first sign of john boehner was not positive at all. i hope he was just maybe just blustering or making the tea party happy again last night. 1-866-55-press, want to get your comments on last night's victory, what it means to you what it means to america. 1-866-55-press. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: looking forward to the next four years under president barack obama, this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] politically direct means no b.s. just telling you what's going on in politics today. >>at the only on-line forum with a direct line to bill press. >>it's something i've been waiting for a long time. >>join the debate now. smiles make more smiles. when the chocolate is hershey's. life is delicious. cook what you love and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll se
the first sign of john boehner was not positive at all. i hope he was just maybe just blustering or making the tea party happy again last night. 1-866-55-press, want to get your comments on last night's victory, what it means to you what it means to america. 1-866-55-press. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: looking forward to the next four years under president barack obama, this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] politically direct...
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john boehner rejected that. john boehner said, no. we can't go along with that. so the president comes up with a compromise. we didn't like the compromise. he did it last weekend. he said we will take that 250. we will give you a tax break on the first $400,000 of your income. and the payroll tax holiday which we were going to continue. no. we will get rid of that. that hurt the middle class. we will get rid of that. and guess what? we said we weren't going to touch social security. we will put social security on thetable. shouldn't have done it. he did. he puts that out there and boehner reject that, too. and he says, no, i am going to have my own plan. i am calling it plan b. i am going to raise taxes only on people who make over a million dollars. so give everybody a tax break on the first million dollar they own, which gets up to even like .5% of the american people not even the top 1%. john boehner takes plan b and by the way everybody said -- everybody said as recently as yesterday, this is a dead-end. this is not going anywhere. here is first, democratic l
john boehner rejected that. john boehner said, no. we can't go along with that. so the president comes up with a compromise. we didn't like the compromise. he did it last weekend. he said we will take that 250. we will give you a tax break on the first $400,000 of your income. and the payroll tax holiday which we were going to continue. no. we will get rid of that. that hurt the middle class. we will get rid of that. and guess what? we said we weren't going to touch social security. we will put...
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let's talk about john boehner. you've written a powerful piece -- >> thank you. >> bill: for roll call. john boehner who once again says we thought we resolved this debt ceiling so it wouldn't come up again until 2013, would not come up in the election year but john boehner brought it back and saying right now we're never going to raise -- unless we with get corresponding cuts, right? debt ceiling as a political football. >> all right. let me use the word that i used in the headline. this is as irresponsible behavior from a speaker of the united states house of representatives you could possibly get. first of all, you don't play around with the debt ceiling with a credit rating of the united states government. no matter who you are. that's whether it is stan collender, bill press or john boehner. >> bill: why don't you? >> you've got a responsibility here for the reputation of the country. and you don't want to do anything that would negatively affect it. that's number one. and number two he, john boehner has liter
let's talk about john boehner. you've written a powerful piece -- >> thank you. >> bill: for roll call. john boehner who once again says we thought we resolved this debt ceiling so it wouldn't come up again until 2013, would not come up in the election year but john boehner brought it back and saying right now we're never going to raise -- unless we with get corresponding cuts, right? debt ceiling as a political football. >> all right. let me use the word that i used in the...
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. >> boehner is not in a in a great spot. the polls are against him. half of his caucus is against him. taxes rise on the rich. polls showing republicans aren't with them. they are dying on the hill for it. what he is laying down is so illogical that he just is the collapsing under the weight of it. look, the president will not tell us what he is willing to cut. the president is not saying he wants to the cut anything. all he did was extend tax cuts the bottom 98% and raise him on the top 2 and punt on the sequester and be done with it. the president isn't clamoring for medicare and social security cuts. he probably would agree to some type of cuts in order to get whaechts. ideal on earth would he be the one it makes so little sense i think it's collapsing in its own weight. >> boehner keeps saying it over and over again. to me, anytime he says it t it looks like he believes it less. of course, so far as we know nothing was accomplished by this meeting yesterday. i think it's clear going back two years ago we have learned nothing is going to be accompl
. >> boehner is not in a in a great spot. the polls are against him. half of his caucus is against him. taxes rise on the rich. polls showing republicans aren't with them. they are dying on the hill for it. what he is laying down is so illogical that he just is the collapsing under the weight of it. look, the president will not tell us what he is willing to cut. the president is not saying he wants to the cut anything. all he did was extend tax cuts the bottom 98% and raise him on the top...
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so if president obama were in office and john boehner were still the speaker -- which is unlikely -- you now have a speaker who said he wants to work with the president, and the president wants this on the his history. jake sherman is a congressional reporter at "politico." i -- jake, when we come back -- i want to take a quick break. when we come back i'm glad to have you join the conversation. you have heard me say so many times, we save a seat for you at the table by calling 866-55-press. any questions about what is on the docket in congress. what was done, what wasn't done. i attended a little round table discussion with democratic leader nancy pelosi friday afternoon in her office. and she had some things to say about democratic chances of winning the house i want to ask you about when we come back here on the "full court press." will it just be president obama winning the house, or this the democrats be able to take over the house and senate. >> announcer: heard around the country, and seen on current tv. this is the "bill press show." ♪ it's go time. what time is it rob? oh,
so if president obama were in office and john boehner were still the speaker -- which is unlikely -- you now have a speaker who said he wants to work with the president, and the president wants this on the his history. jake sherman is a congressional reporter at "politico." i -- jake, when we come back -- i want to take a quick break. when we come back i'm glad to have you join the conversation. you have heard me say so many times, we save a seat for you at the table by calling...
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please reach out to john boehner at speaker boehner on twitter. gracey saying why do republicans keep harping about entitlements. they're earned benefits. is it to satisfy some deep-seated sadistic need to starve people? allen says i have an idea! let's let speaker boehner live on my paycheck for a month. i bring home $480 every two weeks after taxes. and damian says he reached out to speaker boehner on twitter and said i told him he was wrong and bill, speaker boehner started crying. he's very sad. >> bill: i guess -- we've been asking everybody to get in touch with this office and tell them to lead or get out of the way. lead or resign because he's showing no leadership by sticking to the same old tired arguments that they were -- that we heard before november 6th. but i guess we should have warned people that -- expect him to break down. >> feelings may get hurt. >> emotional guy. >> bill: you know where he was last night man. he might be total anti-obama, unwilling to compromise, not willing to even recognize there was an election but he was a
please reach out to john boehner at speaker boehner on twitter. gracey saying why do republicans keep harping about entitlements. they're earned benefits. is it to satisfy some deep-seated sadistic need to starve people? allen says i have an idea! let's let speaker boehner live on my paycheck for a month. i bring home $480 every two weeks after taxes. and damian says he reached out to speaker boehner on twitter and said i told him he was wrong and bill, speaker boehner started crying. he's very...
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boehner won't do it. why won't boehner do it because boehner says that still says -- he's just dead ass wrong he still says that raising taxes on the wealthiest of americans on the 2% would cost -- would kill jobs and kill the economy and we know from the eight years under bill clinton proven just the opposite. in the eight years under george bush proven when you do give tax cuts to the rich, the economy doesn't soar, it sinks. president obama finally part of their campaign yesterday always very clever. obama operation. they came up with a way for all americans to be able to sound off on this issue. he noted that if the tax cuts on the middle class on the 98% do go up, middle class americans will pay $2,000 more in taxes every year. that means $2,000 out of your pocket so the president's asking people to tell members of congress what that -- what you could do with that $2,000. what that $2,000 would mean to you and they're sending -- asking people to send their stories to their member of congress. republi
boehner won't do it. why won't boehner do it because boehner says that still says -- he's just dead ass wrong he still says that raising taxes on the wealthiest of americans on the 2% would cost -- would kill jobs and kill the economy and we know from the eight years under bill clinton proven just the opposite. in the eight years under george bush proven when you do give tax cuts to the rich, the economy doesn't soar, it sinks. president obama finally part of their campaign yesterday always...
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you know what he has to say to john boehner? you lost i won. okay. so get out of my way and let's get it done. but don't tell me that you guys are in charge because you're not in charge. american people could have chosen to go your way with mitt romney. they didn't. they want a balanced approach. they want some new revenue and they want the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share. now is the time. >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show" now on current tv. (vo) cenk uygur is many things. >>oh really? >>"if you ever raise taxes on >>the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true! [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: hey, how about it. president obama, busy schedule >> bill: oh, man, poor president obama. he's got a -- do you think they would give him a day off. he's got such a busy schedule today. >> i'm not going to feel too bad for him. >> bill: he gets a daily briefing at 11:15. >> whoa. that's it, huh? >> bill: that's it. nothing else. >> that's it? >> bill: he deserves to kick b
you know what he has to say to john boehner? you lost i won. okay. so get out of my way and let's get it done. but don't tell me that you guys are in charge because you're not in charge. american people could have chosen to go your way with mitt romney. they didn't. they want a balanced approach. they want some new revenue and they want the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share. now is the time. >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show" now on current...
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john boehner is asking to outline a plan and get fellow republicans on board. ryan will likely be under the most pressure to back away from his conservative politics. his run for vp no doubt brought him some new-found respect and political clout amongst his colleagues. they say they will confident they will be able to reach some sort of a deal by the engineer of the deal, they need to be at an impasse when it comes to taxes. they said any deal to reduce the deficit should come through pro-gross reforms. that means things like lowers rates, and closing loopholes. >> just to close loopholes is far too little money, and they have said they weren't it to be revenue neutral. the president has been very clear, that the higher-income people have to pay their fair share. >> that means no deal from the democrats if republicans will not agree to raise taxes on the wealthy, but pelosi says she is optimistic. more john coming up after the break. stay with us. ♪ created ad message for little caesars who proudly salutes unites states veterans everywhere. >> hi, i'm rick lo
john boehner is asking to outline a plan and get fellow republicans on board. ryan will likely be under the most pressure to back away from his conservative politics. his run for vp no doubt brought him some new-found respect and political clout amongst his colleagues. they say they will confident they will be able to reach some sort of a deal by the engineer of the deal, they need to be at an impasse when it comes to taxes. they said any deal to reduce the deficit should come through pro-gross...
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david, john boehner saidpom -- boehner said the president was manufacturing a difference between republicans and democrats on this issue. the president has been out there putting a lot of pressure. what's going on? >> last week was student loan week. it's a deal where in 2007, a low heist interest student loan program and it's due to expire on july 1st. so it's kind of like the newp cut. breast rates for student loans will go up. president obama decided to make this a big issue and visited three college campuses last week. whipped up excitement telling people, tell congress to renew this program or your loan raids will go up republicans said they were more than happy to do that but they wanted offsetting budget cuts. it was a discussion about how to pay for the extension of the student loan program. sol boehner is basically saying we agree with him but we are just looking to do it a different way. >> as jay carney pointed out, they had voted for the ryan budget. >> right. >> which raises the interest rates back up to 6.8%. >> there was nothing on this that you could post and pass something.
david, john boehner saidpom -- boehner said the president was manufacturing a difference between republicans and democrats on this issue. the president has been out there putting a lot of pressure. what's going on? >> last week was student loan week. it's a deal where in 2007, a low heist interest student loan program and it's due to expire on july 1st. so it's kind of like the newp cut. breast rates for student loans will go up. president obama decided to make this a big issue and...
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quick to say yeah, let's follow the boehner thing. when you look at what boehner is saying about how to avoid the fiscal cliff he's not saying we're going to agree with president obama on anything yet right? >> not yet. at least publicly, he's just reheating the old romney proposal which is if you close deductions, that's where you get your revenue. not from letting the high end tax cuts expire. the high-end tax cuts expire. what obama had been campaigning on and what voters want overwhelmingly. so you know, the administration has actually been fairly optimistic about where boehner is and negotiating with boehner and negotiating maybe with some of the rank and file who are more likely to come to an agreement. maybe go into the senate. and doing this very publicly. they're meeting with a lot of groups with labor groups, with business groups and they've learned their lesson. this idea that in 2011 last year, they could just sit in a room with boehner, hatch out a deal and all would be done. clearly didn't work out very well. after the e
quick to say yeah, let's follow the boehner thing. when you look at what boehner is saying about how to avoid the fiscal cliff he's not saying we're going to agree with president obama on anything yet right? >> not yet. at least publicly, he's just reheating the old romney proposal which is if you close deductions, that's where you get your revenue. not from letting the high end tax cuts expire. the high-end tax cuts expire. what obama had been campaigning on and what voters want...
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here is speaker boehner. >> pain at the pump is an urgent issue. it deserves the same urgency from leaders here in washington. the house is doing its part. we can do more if president obama steps up and heeds the will of the american people. >> if only the president would act, he can drive gas prices down. >> john boehner knows that's not true. the price of gasoline is out of the control of anything that the president can do, anything that can congress can do, but everyone involved in this game knows that historically, the president's approval rating is very closely tied, inversely tied, higher prices go the lower the president's approval goes. the president is in full crisis control mode trying to deal with this. on the other side, republicans are trying to harness this trying to, you know help them keep control of the house and gain control room of the senate and hopefully control of the white house. it's kind of like lucy and the football. every spring, gas prices go up. every spring whoever is in the white house gets blamed for it t every sprin
here is speaker boehner. >> pain at the pump is an urgent issue. it deserves the same urgency from leaders here in washington. the house is doing its part. we can do more if president obama steps up and heeds the will of the american people. >> if only the president would act, he can drive gas prices down. >> john boehner knows that's not true. the price of gasoline is out of the control of anything that the president can do, anything that can congress can do, but everyone...
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. >> and i think partly he was thinking screw boehner. boehner has been screwing the senate republicans since day one. just sending them stuff and saying hey look we have done our job, why don't you do your job. knowing full well what the house passed would never pass -- >> right. >> and now mcconnell gets to say, hey, here is our bill. >> basically a taste of their own medicine. >> again, we're talking to ryan grimm, from the "huffington post," huffingtonpost.com. and you can follow him on twitter at ryan grim. >> they are saying over the next ten years or so the affordable healthcare act is going to be cheaper than they thought. reduced by $84 billion. why do those savings come from? >> well, more misery. about 6 or 7 million people who were expected to be covered won't be covered because john roberts said that, you know, states can opt medicaid. >> expansion of medicaid. >> right. >> so in the short-term it will be slightly cheaper, obviously that's the result of a lot of people not getting treated. >> it's a good news-bad news story.
. >> and i think partly he was thinking screw boehner. boehner has been screwing the senate republicans since day one. just sending them stuff and saying hey look we have done our job, why don't you do your job. knowing full well what the house passed would never pass -- >> right. >> and now mcconnell gets to say, hey, here is our bill. >> basically a taste of their own medicine. >> again, we're talking to ryan grimm, from the "huffington post,"...
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boehner doesn't have any leverage. he lost the election. it's more important for the president to stick to his guns. we talked about this before. remember, i went to the holiday party and told them our listeners and viewers say, hold the line. he hasn't held the line. squeeze joey from chicago in here >> caller: here we go. this guy has never stood up for us. i don't know why they say don't worry. this guy never stood up for us once in the past four years. he is a joke. i can't believe it. my mom is on social security. she can't afford $5 taken from her. she needs every bit of that. people who make 250,000, 40 ol',000 can every day $10. >> bill: joe e you are absolute right. there are millions of americans on social security. every one of them will see their benefits cut under this deal the president is proposing. no way. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] like verse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. >> she gets the comedians laughing... >> that's hilarious! >> ...and the thinkers thinking. >>
boehner doesn't have any leverage. he lost the election. it's more important for the president to stick to his guns. we talked about this before. remember, i went to the holiday party and told them our listeners and viewers say, hold the line. he hasn't held the line. squeeze joey from chicago in here >> caller: here we go. this guy has never stood up for us. i don't know why they say don't worry. this guy never stood up for us once in the past four years. he is a joke. i can't believe...
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john boehner is out of that school. eric cantor is not. >> he's been between barack obama and the tea party constituency in his house. that's a very difficult place to be. real question is will he be in that same place in 2013? we'll have to see. >> bill: again assuming -- my scenario and president obama is re-elected, which i think he will be, doesn't that send a message to the republicans in the house, you may have tried this my way or the highway approach but the american people are not happy with it. they want you to get some things done. no? >> i think there is a growing understanding within both parties that people are -- voters really do want more bipartisanship on the hill. there was an article in the times by jennifer and jonathan that was all about how more republicans are campaigning this year on a platform of bipartisanship. and seeing that they have reached out to the other party and tried to cooperate and so i think we're seeing more of that this election cycle. >> bill: that gets to your point about not w
john boehner is out of that school. eric cantor is not. >> he's been between barack obama and the tea party constituency in his house. that's a very difficult place to be. real question is will he be in that same place in 2013? we'll have to see. >> bill: again assuming -- my scenario and president obama is re-elected, which i think he will be, doesn't that send a message to the republicans in the house, you may have tried this my way or the highway approach but the american people...
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john boehner has said the same thing. >> rarely john boehner and the chairman of the democratic, it is real. we have 175 days to the election. this house is in play. we have taken the ball from deep on the 20 yard line after the 2010 e elections. we have got it to their 20 yard line and we get closer every day. >> you need remind us again, our viewers again, you need 25 seats? >> 25 seats to take the majority and here's why we are progressive. there is a deep set of buyers' remorse set in. these tea party republicans came to congress to be part of a solution. they are now the problem. they enl gauge in excess partisanship. they are so concerned with taking president obama's one job away from him they have failed to create jobs. we had an adammendment last week that said if tu are a member of congress, give up your pension. you shouldn't be double dipping every single republican voted against themat. they are about helping special interests. these guys were against extending a middle class tax cut but they won't ask big oil companies to sacrifice a nickel of their $40,000,000,000 in sub
john boehner has said the same thing. >> rarely john boehner and the chairman of the democratic, it is real. we have 175 days to the election. this house is in play. we have taken the ball from deep on the 20 yard line after the 2010 e elections. we have got it to their 20 yard line and we get closer every day. >> you need remind us again, our viewers again, you need 25 seats? >> 25 seats to take the majority and here's why we are progressive. there is a deep set of buyers'...
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not even boehner believes this. the senate won't take it up. obama would veto it. you know what? >> what a waste of time. >> bill: it is pure masturbation. >> political masturbation -- >> bill: is more valuable, is more meaningful. at least there's -- well -- >> of course it is. >> sex with someone that i love. >> bill: better masturbate than vote 33 times on this healthcare legislation. there you go. we've got our priorities. >> quote of the day. >> bill: we have our priorities right around the "full court press" this morning. we've got lots and lots of good people coming in today including congressman chris van hollen, one of the top leaders of the democrats in the house of representatives sat down with president obama yesterday. then the head of the naacp will be along to tell us what he thought about mitt romney's speech yesterday. and ginger -- i'm sorry. ginger gibson from politico will be here to talk politics of the day later in this hour. but first -- >> this is the "full court press." >> on a thursday, other headlines making news, lots of complaints four years ago when
not even boehner believes this. the senate won't take it up. obama would veto it. you know what? >> what a waste of time. >> bill: it is pure masturbation. >> political masturbation -- >> bill: is more valuable, is more meaningful. at least there's -- well -- >> of course it is. >> sex with someone that i love. >> bill: better masturbate than vote 33 times on this healthcare legislation. there you go. we've got our priorities. >> quote of the day....
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and so, again, speaker boehner can't, with his leadership get his troops together. he doesn't want to pass a bill with democrats because that would be embarrassing himto him and i can't he can't pass it as long as he has these 40 to 50 intransigient conservatives who don't want to do anything. what's happened is right on the brink, right on the frontend of a construction season, they are about ready to do nothing or pass an extension which let's another construction season go by. >> does this -- thathas the speaker expressed, mr. secretary, his personal support for the bill and urged his members to vote for it? >> what he has said is that we need to pass a bill. look. if they read the tea leaves every poll they read says the people want a transportation bill. the people want their friends and neighbors to go to work. they know if they go home without passing a jobs bill, a bill that puts people to work they are going to -- a lot of their members are going to come in for hell right at the beginning of the construction season when people are ready to go to work ready
and so, again, speaker boehner can't, with his leadership get his troops together. he doesn't want to pass a bill with democrats because that would be embarrassing himto him and i can't he can't pass it as long as he has these 40 to 50 intransigient conservatives who don't want to do anything. what's happened is right on the brink, right on the frontend of a construction season, they are about ready to do nothing or pass an extension which let's another construction season go by. >> does...
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and also they were selling president obama if you want to get the job done -- john boehner and eric cantor feel their job is to be roadblocks. >> right. >> bill: that must be frustrating for someone like you. >> yeah, it's incredibly frustrating for somebody like me. part of my job is getting the votes together and i worked on the affordable care act, i helped get the votes together when we passed the climate change bill in the house. there's so much we can do but what happens was the republican leadership said their number 1 goal was to defeat barack obama, so they put the good of the country aside. all of the things we should have been doing they just sat on it and with the affordable care act, they said we are going to repeal and replace. they had vote after vote to repeal it, but no vote to replace it, because they don't have a plan to replace it. and so i said what are we going to do? and they said we'll figure it out after the election. we feel like we have 15 seats pretty much taken care of and i would really like to have more than a one-vote majority. so that's 35 but we think we c
and also they were selling president obama if you want to get the job done -- john boehner and eric cantor feel their job is to be roadblocks. >> right. >> bill: that must be frustrating for someone like you. >> yeah, it's incredibly frustrating for somebody like me. part of my job is getting the votes together and i worked on the affordable care act, i helped get the votes together when we passed the climate change bill in the house. there's so much we can do but what happens...
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they're controlling john boehner today and their goal is to shut government down. they don't want government to work. so they don't want to solve any problems. they don't want a highway built. they don't want an increase in the debt ceiling. they don't want immigration reform. they don't want to do anything about global warming. they just want to shut it down [[vo]]joy behar is coming to current tv for one week only until the fall. what happens if you ask her to >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: you bet it is. it is 33 minutes now after the hour on a thursday, june 14. so good to see you today. congresswoman donna edwards joining us later in the program. this is the "full court press." the "bill press show." coming to you live from our nation's capital brought to you today by the utility worker's union of america. under president michael langford delivering vital services and a brighter future. you can find out more about their good work by going to ua.net. with the utility workers a big dispute, c
they're controlling john boehner today and their goal is to shut government down. they don't want government to work. so they don't want to solve any problems. they don't want a highway built. they don't want an increase in the debt ceiling. they don't want immigration reform. they don't want to do anything about global warming. they just want to shut it down [[vo]]joy behar is coming to current tv for one week only until the fall. what happens if you ask her to >> announcer: heard around...
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i think john boehner has difficult task in selling that to his caucus and increasing the top rate. i think at the end of the day they know have to do it. the american people are there and are willing to accept an even desire seeing the top rate increase. tea party caucus, still a hard right that's against it. but i think he finds a way to sell that to them. so i think the answer to that question is yes. >> bill: before we move along the g.o.p. fire wall, you've reported really, there are more cracks in the fire wall every day. >> there are. some of them are on the senate side which is less of a problem i think. corker and some others who have been a little bit more moderate on the issue. you've seen a couple of cracks among house republicans cole and some others. it has been a little bit less -- more muted than the senate side but i think there's enough there that eventually they'll accept it. it is of course what they get in return. they're not going to come out and say okay, fine, we caved. we're allowing the top rates to go up until they've got something they believe they can ta
i think john boehner has difficult task in selling that to his caucus and increasing the top rate. i think at the end of the day they know have to do it. the american people are there and are willing to accept an even desire seeing the top rate increase. tea party caucus, still a hard right that's against it. but i think he finds a way to sell that to them. so i think the answer to that question is yes. >> bill: before we move along the g.o.p. fire wall, you've reported really, there are...
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john boehner, who if you ask any reporter and a lot of democrats, is a reasonable man, john boehner. but when your hands are tied and you have got this sort of wounded bull in the tea party running around the house, you really put yourself in a behind. let's go to geoff in madison, wisconsin. geoff, welcome to the bill press show. >> hi, there. current tvans and hello america and hello bill press show. >> thanks for calling in, geoff. >> i wanted to say, hey, this isn't the only tea party victory we have had this year. don't forget the raul in wisconsin. obama said he wanted texas to become a purple state. unfortunately, wisconsin is now a purple state. you know, luckily, it's a matter of speaking the truth, you know, to defeat the tea party but unfortunately ignorance is difficult to overcome. >> yeah. >> we have an uphill battle yet. >> that's a good point. i for goatgot about that. >> they defeated dick luker. >> richard murdoch, a tea partier as well. >> right. >> a humonguos deal. very well thought of, pretty moderate senator, richard luge rfl r, gone. >> let's go down to the be
john boehner, who if you ask any reporter and a lot of democrats, is a reasonable man, john boehner. but when your hands are tied and you have got this sort of wounded bull in the tea party running around the house, you really put yourself in a behind. let's go to geoff in madison, wisconsin. geoff, welcome to the bill press show. >> hi, there. current tvans and hello america and hello bill press show. >> thanks for calling in, geoff. >> i wanted to say, hey, this isn't the...
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it's in terms of where boehner will come out. i was on the floor with my count down chart. virginia foxx was the republican floor leader on the rule we were debating who again was actually still, you know, complaining about the fact that 2007, the democrats cut the rate from 6.8% to 3.4%. so, i mean you know -- >> she is the one on record saying -- >> she has no sympathy for people. >> who need to get a loan. >> the woman of the higher education subcommittee in this caucus. again, it's almost iconic example of the, you know, the people that are in charge because of the republican majority and frankly we've got to stop that this fall with the election. >> so the house is going to have to bite the bullet or not on student loans before the end of the week and also on the transportation bill that passed the senate 425 or something like that. >> two months ago. >> yeah. >> barbara boxer and jim inhofe talk about strange bed fellows. >> can't get more bi-partisan than that. >> or weird than that. >> that's in front of the house. it's like they can't take yes for a answer. >> abso
it's in terms of where boehner will come out. i was on the floor with my count down chart. virginia foxx was the republican floor leader on the rule we were debating who again was actually still, you know, complaining about the fact that 2007, the democrats cut the rate from 6.8% to 3.4%. so, i mean you know -- >> she is the one on record saying -- >> she has no sympathy for people. >> who need to get a loan. >> the woman of the higher education subcommittee in this...
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in other words, john boehner says if you want to beat up a lesbian, be my guest. who says there's no war against women? we'll talk about that and a whole lot more here on our last hour together this morning but first, let's go out to los angeles and say good morning to jacki schechner for the latest in this current tv news update. jacki? it is all yours. >> thank you, bill. good morning everyone. we've got new fund-raising numbers out this morning. the mitt romney campaign saying it raised $40.1 million last month. that's nearly matching president obama's total of $43.6 million. romney's campaign is expected to release an announcement this morning saying they've got $61.4 million cash on and that 95% of the donations last month were coming in at $250 or less. the huge jump in fund-raising this month comes from donors finally coalescing around romney as the presumptive g.o.p. nominee. he raised only $12.6 million in comparison in march. democrats are concerned however that super pacs will eventually put mitt romney in the lead and tip the money scales in his favor.
in other words, john boehner says if you want to beat up a lesbian, be my guest. who says there's no war against women? we'll talk about that and a whole lot more here on our last hour together this morning but first, let's go out to los angeles and say good morning to jacki schechner for the latest in this current tv news update. jacki? it is all yours. >> thank you, bill. good morning everyone. we've got new fund-raising numbers out this morning. the mitt romney campaign saying it...
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i think john boehner ought to be fired for political malpractice. they ought to stay here and do their job. that's one of the things we're going to talk about here in this last hour together. we start out as always with today's current news update from lisa ferguson in los angeles. good morning. >> good morning, bill, good morning everyone. we should get a ruling by the end of the month on pennsylvania's controversial voter i.d. law. layers gave arguments last night. it could stop 1 million people from cast be their ballot come november. advocates say it is to prevent voter fraud and a new study says voter laws do protect minority voters. they forget to mention the paper's author. horace cooper has quite a history of false tying documents. as it is reported this morning he was not middle of the abromov scandal. he wrote the voter i.d. study for the national public policy research. the group calls itself a conservative think tank. >> no disaster relief for american ranchers for the next five week. as bill mentioned earlier congress is leaving on augu
i think john boehner ought to be fired for political malpractice. they ought to stay here and do their job. that's one of the things we're going to talk about here in this last hour together. we start out as always with today's current news update from lisa ferguson in los angeles. good morning. >> good morning, bill, good morning everyone. we should get a ruling by the end of the month on pennsylvania's controversial voter i.d. law. layers gave arguments last night. it could stop 1...
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boehner. >> he has to know better. >> he has to know better. but what's clear, remember when he and the president were negotiating over going bold and it was going to be a $4 trillion dil and it was going to be revenues as well as cuts, the pentagon was included? that made sense. we would have a lot of arguments about what the details were and what the final product was. it's the only way you can approach it. when that surfaced, he got so smacked down by his caucus so boehner is the quote leader but i am not shooquite sure he is in charge. >> right. on a related question facebook goes out today? right? the big ipo, $104,000,000,000. one of the co-founders, edwardo savren, came here, did well, went to school now he is a billionaire has renounced his american citizenship to avoid paying taxes and he is now a citizens of singapore. i don't know whether you saw that yesterday senator chuck schumer and bob casey introduced legislation they called the ex patriot act. right? the ex patriot act. if you do that if you are worth over 2 million or so and
boehner. >> he has to know better. >> he has to know better. but what's clear, remember when he and the president were negotiating over going bold and it was going to be a $4 trillion dil and it was going to be revenues as well as cuts, the pentagon was included? that made sense. we would have a lot of arguments about what the details were and what the final product was. it's the only way you can approach it. when that surfaced, he got so smacked down by his caucus so boehner is the...
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we sent to boehner to ask him to move on it. people can come to my web site, sherrodbrown.com and help with us that grassroots effort to get that bill of legislation scheduled. if it goes to the house, they'll pass it. the president will sign it. >> bill: sherrodbrown.com is the web site. senator sherrod brown our guest. senator, "washington post" this morning, i have the article in front of me. the headline is u.s. chamber of commerce launches ads targeting main independent and democrats in montana and ohio. this is headed -- targeted right at you senator sherrod brown from the u.s. chamber. >> this could have been a front page -- two months ago. the chamber -- up to $18 million in television ads which doesn't count radio. i just went by an electronic billboard blaming me for high gas prices here in cleveland. it is the oil industry. they don't like me because of our oil tax breaks and the chinese interests and outsourcing interests are spending money against me because they don't like my position on currency and the big banks
we sent to boehner to ask him to move on it. people can come to my web site, sherrodbrown.com and help with us that grassroots effort to get that bill of legislation scheduled. if it goes to the house, they'll pass it. the president will sign it. >> bill: sherrodbrown.com is the web site. senator sherrod brown our guest. senator, "washington post" this morning, i have the article in front of me. the headline is u.s. chamber of commerce launches ads targeting main independent and...
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just yesterday leaders of both chambers majority leader reed and speaker boehner bother down again to reach a final consensus. if this doesn't get past by june 30, we will be out of authorization for anything happening this year. in the state of delaware, there's more than 6,000 jobs that are directly tied to this two year $109 billion highway authorization. the senate is at a place where we are passing bipartisan bills. it's tough to get them through. we have to take hard votes on irrelevant amendments which is what we're doing to do with the farm bill. but why the house republican caucus are allowed to hold these critical bills hostage is beyond me. the president talks about dysfunctioning congress and how he can't get congress to work. what he really means and this bill proves it is the small group of republicans in the house republican caucus who refuse to make any reasonable progress towards expanding federal power to do the things that the federal government does. >> do you believe -- >> creating a federal highway system. >> sorry to interrupt. do you believe those house republi
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john boehner said he'll spend money to defend it. what's going on? >> nancy pelosi called him out in a press relief saying why are you still defending this using taxpayer dollars. the politics of this issue has totally changed. in 2004, president bush, helped him win banning gay marriage, and now social conservatives in the republican party are not as powerful as they were. the polls on gay marriage have totally changed over the last decade. it's been remarkable. >> bill: one indication if i can find it quickly that might surprise you yeah, in -- so republicans are counting on this is an issue where they can get latinos to vote for them. >> yeah. >> bill: and just six years ago "the new york times" reporting this morning 56% of latinos were against same-sex marriage. today, 52% of latinos support same sex marriage. the politics changing across the board. certainly among young people. >> right. >> bill: this is a big winner for those who support same-sex marriage and loser for those trying to stop it. >> the republicans are getting beaten badly, mitt
john boehner said he'll spend money to defend it. what's going on? >> nancy pelosi called him out in a press relief saying why are you still defending this using taxpayer dollars. the politics of this issue has totally changed. in 2004, president bush, helped him win banning gay marriage, and now social conservatives in the republican party are not as powerful as they were. the polls on gay marriage have totally changed over the last decade. it's been remarkable. >> bill: one...
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. >> i think wall street somebody underestimating -- i think john boehner is going to have to let it happen to remain speaker. but that's not to say they won't correct it later, but we're going to hit it in january and probably keep going for a couple of weeks. >> jamal: all right. he is the budget guy, and he is at capital gains and games. we'll be back with a final word just after these messages. thank you all for being here too. >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show" now on current tv. ♪ start you morning with a daily dose of politics from a fresh perspective. >>i'm a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. >>only on current tv. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] bloc >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> jamal: good morning this is jamal simmons in for bill press at the "bill press show." thank you for being here. i had a great time this week with a good group of folks backstage who have been helping me pull this show off. thank you peter. >> it was an honor to work with you, sir. >> jamal: thank you. we have been talking about mitt romney and his -- his surrogate jo
. >> i think wall street somebody underestimating -- i think john boehner is going to have to let it happen to remain speaker. but that's not to say they won't correct it later, but we're going to hit it in january and probably keep going for a couple of weeks. >> jamal: all right. he is the budget guy, and he is at capital gains and games. we'll be back with a final word just after these messages. thank you all for being here too. >> announcer: radio meets television. the...
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up to this point house speaker john boehner is saying he will not accept any increases on tax rates. but some top republicans are quietly coming around. it is obvious after the election that republicans do not hold the mandate on taxes. while the g.o.p. still might not agree to a tax rate on those making more than $250,000 a year, if democrats demand a millionaire tax increase, it will be hard for republicans to say no. climate change actvilles are not feeling too optimistic after the president's news conference yesterday. advocates had been hoping the president would push for a carbon tax as a way to help raise revenue during talks on the fiscal cliff. while the president did say he is a official believe err -- firm believer in climate change and will take up the issue in the future. for now it will take a backseat to the economy. this is also an issue both parties avoided during the presidential campaign and even during energy talks, there was no mention of climate change during the debates. more john fuglesang is coming up after the break and we're live in our chat room, join us t
up to this point house speaker john boehner is saying he will not accept any increases on tax rates. but some top republicans are quietly coming around. it is obvious after the election that republicans do not hold the mandate on taxes. while the g.o.p. still might not agree to a tax rate on those making more than $250,000 a year, if democrats demand a millionaire tax increase, it will be hard for republicans to say no. climate change actvilles are not feeling too optimistic after the...
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. >> apparently speaker boehner has about it and he hassays he has zero tolerance for ethics problems but attending fundraisers with vern buchanan who is under investigation, for the conrepublican congressional campaign committee and it is a front group. we looked at all 435 members if you did these things we weren't picking democrats or republicans. whoever was involved is in the report. so ... from the democratic side leader pelosi? >> no comment. no comment so far. >> no comment so far? >> yeah. >> for the record, you are often accused of being just a democrat democratic front group. i don't remember your being so kind to charlie rangel. >> there are many democrats who actually would really quibble with the concept that we are a democratic front group. it was not too long ago we filed an sec complaint against rob andrews, a democrat from new jersey. he has used his campaign funds, for example, to take his family on a trip to scotland for a wedding for somebody he said was a dornneor and used campaign funds also to advance his daughter's theatrical career so there are some questiona
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john boehner saying yesterday, if the supreme court didn't repeal it, we'll repeal it. mitch mcconnell says the american people want us to start from scratch. right? mitt romney says, i will repeal it on day one of my presidency. you know talking points memo this morning, if i bring it up again, after healthcare ruling g.o.p. hits rewind as democrats look to the future. >> that's basically all they've got. right? >> that's what they've got. i think they are going to try to force some kind of replay of the summer of 2009. >> that's what we need. >> that's exactly what we need. but i think that's what they are going to try to do. you know, they have already started on the tax increase thing. you know, i don't blame them for doing that. if i were them, i would come out of this saying that, too. this is now a tax increase and it breaks its pledge not to raise taxes on middle income people. but the democrats have to answer that, bill, pretty forcefully because they are already out there saying, this is an increase on everybody. but, no. 85% of people have insurance. so this
john boehner saying yesterday, if the supreme court didn't repeal it, we'll repeal it. mitch mcconnell says the american people want us to start from scratch. right? mitt romney says, i will repeal it on day one of my presidency. you know talking points memo this morning, if i bring it up again, after healthcare ruling g.o.p. hits rewind as democrats look to the future. >> that's basically all they've got. right? >> that's what they've got. i think they are going to try to force...
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john boehner, mitch mcconnell, eric kantor yesterday, refused to criticize president obama because they know it's not right and it's not the right time. larry calling from new briton, connecticut. >> caller: good morning, bill. >> bill: yes, sir. >> caller: first, remove the second m from mormon and you have mitt romney. >> bill: i got it. moron. >> caller: it sounds like mitt romney is defending american values, he made it sound like pastor terry jones represents american values. i found that outrageous. >> bill: the guy that wanted to burn the koran. >> caller: and he had a smirk on his face. >> bill: yeah. listen, larry, glad you mentioned that. peter has the smirk up on your computer. we'll show it on the screen for those watching on current tv. for the rest of you, check out our web site and you'll see the smirk as he walked away from the podium. charles is in lancaster, california. hey, charles. >> caller: good morning, bill. isn't it amazing that rick santorum -- came through that mitt romney would be the worst candidate that the republican party could field. >> bill: you know wh
john boehner, mitch mcconnell, eric kantor yesterday, refused to criticize president obama because they know it's not right and it's not the right time. larry calling from new briton, connecticut. >> caller: good morning, bill. >> bill: yes, sir. >> caller: first, remove the second m from mormon and you have mitt romney. >> bill: i got it. moron. >> caller: it sounds like mitt romney is defending american values, he made it sound like pastor terry jones represents...
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speaker boehner is now holding it up. but this isn't -- this is the important thing to me here is that paul ryan voted for this dreadful horrible bill and they knew what they were voting for. >> bill: ris record on these issues is abysmal. paul ryan can't hide or run from it. terry o'neil won't let him. president of now. it is now.org. >> that's right. >> bill: get your call in now at 1-866-55-press. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. >> announcer: this is the bill press. >> bill: visiting with terry o'neill, president of now, the national organization for women. we'll get back to terry and your calls in just a second. here is an article that caught my attention
speaker boehner is now holding it up. but this isn't -- this is the important thing to me here is that paul ryan voted for this dreadful horrible bill and they knew what they were voting for. >> bill: ris record on these issues is abysmal. paul ryan can't hide or run from it. terry o'neil won't let him. president of now. it is now.org. >> that's right. >> bill: get your call in now at 1-866-55-press. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." you want to save...
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i would submit that occupy wall street cares about you way more than john boehner and fox us in. >> caller: yes, because it's an issue of fairness. there's words they don't use like fairness sympathy love. all of those things scare them. if i give a friend of mine a big hug and said hey dude, i love you, there is some controversy. >> john: well, if you hold too long there is. >> caller: right. >> john: governor romney who didn't work and made all of his money off of investments paid 13.9% in taxes. and every time i see some lame stream media liberal journalist interview governor romney they bring this up and he said rich pay most of the taxes in this country. and that's true. yes, they do pay more but they pay a lower percentage in taxes and i will respect liberal media when they actually hold his feet to the fire on that point. good morning, anita, you are on the "bill press show." >> caller: good morning, i'm really looking forward to your show. >> john: stephanie is not going to be there, it's just me and hal sparks and there will be a lot of testosterone. [ laughter ] >> caller: the li
i would submit that occupy wall street cares about you way more than john boehner and fox us in. >> caller: yes, because it's an issue of fairness. there's words they don't use like fairness sympathy love. all of those things scare them. if i give a friend of mine a big hug and said hey dude, i love you, there is some controversy. >> john: well, if you hold too long there is. >> caller: right. >> john: governor romney who didn't work and made all of his money off of...
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he's got maybe two years working for his daddy's firm like john boehner sweeping his daddy's bar, his father's construction firm in the case of paul ryan. so very, very limited private private-sector experience and romney says we need people with a business background to kind of run things? and did anybody look at his record in congress? in 13 years in congress, paul ryan has authored two bills, two bills. one to rename a post office. and the other to provide some tax relief for archers. he does archery. i mean that's his sport. so he wanted to provide tax relief forair arrows. hardly a legislative fireball at all in the congress. the other thing about paul ryan is he has sponsored -- didn't just support. he sponsored the beatle personhood in the amendment. this would make a fertilized eg a person. this would say a fertilized eg gets all of the rights of any person like just you and me. this is so extreme it would even outlaw many forms of contraception. >> that's not just abortion but contraception. this is so extreme, the people of mississippi rejected it. can't get more extreme tha
he's got maybe two years working for his daddy's firm like john boehner sweeping his daddy's bar, his father's construction firm in the case of paul ryan. so very, very limited private private-sector experience and romney says we need people with a business background to kind of run things? and did anybody look at his record in congress? in 13 years in congress, paul ryan has authored two bills, two bills. one to rename a post office. and the other to provide some tax relief for archers. he...
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. >> who says boehner and pelosi don't get along. pretty good with that. >> happy birthday. oh my god. >> everyone is stepping in. >> w. got up, too? nancy didn't know how popular she was. >> we have a great line-up. he manual cleaver, coming in studio with us a little bit later. nia myspace malika henderson is going to be in as well and ryan grimm from huffington post will you have update us on what we couldan expect from the supreme court today on the first day of free arguments about whatevereverybody is now proudly calling it and we will at thetell you the latest about george zimmerman and his attorney and friends fighting back in the trayvon martin case. >>> making news tiringger woods uponwon his first pga tournament in 30 months at faye hill over graham mcdowell. he held his own through the weekend and moves up in the rank rankings to number 6 in the world. he had been down close to 50. he now hisas his eyes, set on the master's this morningnth. >> my impression was that the competition is tough. >> really? >> did he celebrate with parnorn stars as in years past? >> n
. >> who says boehner and pelosi don't get along. pretty good with that. >> happy birthday. oh my god. >> everyone is stepping in. >> w. got up, too? nancy didn't know how popular she was. >> we have a great line-up. he manual cleaver, coming in studio with us a little bit later. nia myspace malika henderson is going to be in as well and ryan grimm from huffington post will you have update us on what we couldan expect from the supreme court today on the first day...
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so none of this. >> boehner does he run anything? >> no. >> really the one managing the frogs and the wheelbarrow. >> totally. the president had the summit and the g 8 in chicago and before even camp david, he met one on one in the off al office with the new president of france. >> speaking of frogs. >> oh. that was over the line, really? >> what gets me from the crowd? >> francois and the president pointed out things are going to chance for you and fan swa. >> i warned him now he is president, he can no longer ride a scooter in paris. [speaking spanish. " " "i know because i tried with the secret service and they wouldn't let me do it. >> that's cool to think about him tooling around paris. >> the school -- as a scooter owner myself >> it is a fantastic mode of trans transportation. >> guess what. >> can't do it anymore. >> not if you are president of france. >> i don't think dan is going to have that problem. >> it will be more than the paris. >> obama talking about how he is trying to do it and the secret service doesn't like it.
so none of this. >> boehner does he run anything? >> no. >> really the one managing the frogs and the wheelbarrow. >> totally. the president had the summit and the g 8 in chicago and before even camp david, he met one on one in the off al office with the new president of france. >> speaking of frogs. >> oh. that was over the line, really? >> what gets me from the crowd? >> francois and the president pointed out things are going to chance for you...
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john boehner has said this defines who we are as a party. so they are not shrinking from it. right? >> it may define who they are as a party. it is so far from the definition of who we are as americans that we should -- it's important we lay out the consequences of this policy. the thing is, it isn't a theoretical exercise. we have tried this before. this is what we did in the first decade of this century, what we did under president bush president bush. we cut spending on critical investments that will help us, you know, in the future we. we gave mask tatsx cuts to the wealthy and the middle class had its worst decade. i am not sure why these guys want to try it again. but that's what they want to do. >> that's what thethe day bate. >> dan pfeiffer is our guest communications director at the white house. follow him actually ol twitter@at twitter twitter twitter @at pfeiffer 44 pfeiffer, 44. we will put it up on our webside sight, too, to make it edesier for you. the president has also been talking a lot about the budget, the buffett rule. where are we with that? what xwthexactly do
john boehner has said this defines who we are as a party. so they are not shrinking from it. right? >> it may define who they are as a party. it is so far from the definition of who we are as americans that we should -- it's important we lay out the consequences of this policy. the thing is, it isn't a theoretical exercise. we have tried this before. this is what we did in the first decade of this century, what we did under president bush president bush. we cut spending on critical...
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republicans in the house have been pushing for the last two years and more with the support of john boehner, with the support of eric cantor led by todd akin and paul ryan. ten different pieces of legislation that will strip women's rights away from them 10 different ways of denying women the right to control their own bodies and limiting cases where there could be an abortion and trying to redefine rape and all of this stuff. 10 different pieces of legislation, co-sponsored by todd akin and paul ryan in the united states, in the united states congress. didn't get that much attention? did it? because we were all talking about the fiscal issues and ryan's budget and all of this stuff. but this was their hidden agenda, when he they threatened to shut down the government as part of the debt ceiling crisis if there were any money for planned parenthood. ten different ways against akin and ryan. the republican party now has as its official platform no abortion, no way, no how, no exception for rape no exception for incest. so somebody help me. somebody explain to me: okay? how is it that let's s
republicans in the house have been pushing for the last two years and more with the support of john boehner, with the support of eric cantor led by todd akin and paul ryan. ten different pieces of legislation that will strip women's rights away from them 10 different ways of denying women the right to control their own bodies and limiting cases where there could be an abortion and trying to redefine rape and all of this stuff. 10 different pieces of legislation, co-sponsored by todd akin and...
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mitt romney, mike huckabee and john boehner. all on one day in asheville. >> oh man. >> bill: this began as a political rally. it is now an exorcism we'll be conducting now. what is that clip about get out -- >> oh, yeah. yeah. >> bill: this is what i'm going to say tonight. >> get the hell out of my house in jesus name i pray! >> bill: there it is. [ laughter ] >> bill: so i'll see you tonight in ashville. and right now we'll talk about last night's debate. watching the debate with all of us danielle is the vice president for new communities and american values over at the center for american progress. we love the center and it's great having you in studio. >> thank you. it is nice to be here. >> bill: there was a lot of pressure on joe biden deliver last night. and did ho deliver. >> yes he was on fire from the moment he stepped until he closed. >> bill: he did. that very, very first response about libya. he said we're going to go get those guys. now let me tell you the difference between barack obama and mitt romney. >> yeah
mitt romney, mike huckabee and john boehner. all on one day in asheville. >> oh man. >> bill: this began as a political rally. it is now an exorcism we'll be conducting now. what is that clip about get out -- >> oh, yeah. yeah. >> bill: this is what i'm going to say tonight. >> get the hell out of my house in jesus name i pray! >> bill: there it is. [ laughter ] >> bill: so i'll see you tonight in ashville. and right now we'll talk about last night's...
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arlen specter could teach john boehner a thing or three. john is calling from state college, pennsylvania. how are you swan? >> caller: how are you? >> bill: you got to know the man, he was a constituent for a while. >> caller: i met arlen a few times when i was at aflcio. he was chief of staff and had me thrown out of his office. >> bill: what? >> caller: had me thrown out of his office because he was a man from new york and i said anyone from pennsylvania's qualified to do the job. i got bounced. i don't think there will ever be a moderate, because these tea baggers something else, like nazis, but i don't want to give nazis a bad name. >> were you in the labor movement there? >> caller: oh, yes a union officer, yes. >> bill: again, i know members of several unions who told me over the years right no, in pennsylvania, where was arlen specter, because he's been with us and he was a solid labor vote all of those years. ok john, good to hear from you andy -- we can do without the nazi reference, thank you. andy in delaware. >> caller: i think
arlen specter could teach john boehner a thing or three. john is calling from state college, pennsylvania. how are you swan? >> caller: how are you? >> bill: you got to know the man, he was a constituent for a while. >> caller: i met arlen a few times when i was at aflcio. he was chief of staff and had me thrown out of his office. >> bill: what? >> caller: had me thrown out of his office because he was a man from new york and i said anyone from pennsylvania's...
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john boehner said it probably will double. >> this is the problem with washington. this is such a wonky hard to explain issue, student loans. it is hard to put it on a bumper sticker and yet it is so important to so many americans. not just to students but their families thairks friends, their future. >> bill: talking about the importance of 2012 and especially what -- where do progressives go and how do we react to what happened in wisconsin with elizabeth rose, communications director for the campaign for america's future. again, your calls welcome at 1-866-55-press. we'll be right back. >> announcer: on your radio, on tv, the "bill press show." new on current tv. >>the guys in the middle-class the guys at the lower-end got screwed again! i think you know which one we're talking about. >>overwhelming majority of the county says: "tax the rich don't go to war." i just wanted to clarify. don't miss this week's "the gavin newsom show" with special guest: hollywood icon oliver stone. >> i'm not an activist, i'm outspoken. i'm a dramatist. >> announcer: radio meets tel
john boehner said it probably will double. >> this is the problem with washington. this is such a wonky hard to explain issue, student loans. it is hard to put it on a bumper sticker and yet it is so important to so many americans. not just to students but their families thairks friends, their future. >> bill: talking about the importance of 2012 and especially what -- where do progressives go and how do we react to what happened in wisconsin with elizabeth rose, communications...
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john boehner is doing a breakfast with reporters. karl rove is talking to mike allen for the breakfast. they are still having events and rallies with big political names. for example, i think chris christie is supposed to speak to -- i think the missouri or ohio folks today -- >> caller: what is the weather like? are you able to get around? >> it has slowed down a bit. i haven't been out today. i came in late last night for some events and then i'm going to head into the convention hall pretty soon. it's not bad. i can't imagine the wind is more than 15 20 miles an hour and the rain is not that hard. but the whole damn town is shut down. it is kind of dead outside of the convention. >> bill: all right. i remember st. paul particularly last year was -- four years ago was that way. so are they warning people like not to go outside or -- >> no. they have some school closings here, the local schools, and they are under -- i guess some various tropical storm warnings, but it is not that bad in tampa, and what is funny is because so much o
john boehner is doing a breakfast with reporters. karl rove is talking to mike allen for the breakfast. they are still having events and rallies with big political names. for example, i think chris christie is supposed to speak to -- i think the missouri or ohio folks today -- >> caller: what is the weather like? are you able to get around? >> it has slowed down a bit. i haven't been out today. i came in late last night for some events and then i'm going to head into the convention...
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you would see mitch mcconnell and john boehner's people sort of drawing their lines in the sand. that's not really happening even though that is sort of by far much sort of bigger story as far as what's going to happen in the country. as far as -- and priority list for both the white house and congress. >> do you think they also get that at the white house? that as long as -- as much as they may be getting hurt or not by the islamist people are talking about benghazi, it enables some room for the white house to get involved in the negotiations as well. >> it allows them to negotiate this without sort of a spotlight on fiscal cliff story which is -- you know, a story that has about six weeks left in it before some -- before taxes go up on everyone and significant spending cuts happen across the country. not just the military. >> you've been covering the hill for awhile in addition to the campaigns. do you get the sense that this will be the time when they say okay, they've reached some agreement on the tax out on the revenue side and republicans eat it a little bit. for people mak
you would see mitch mcconnell and john boehner's people sort of drawing their lines in the sand. that's not really happening even though that is sort of by far much sort of bigger story as far as what's going to happen in the country. as far as -- and priority list for both the white house and congress. >> do you think they also get that at the white house? that as long as -- as much as they may be getting hurt or not by the islamist people are talking about benghazi, it enables some room...
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john boehner wants your check back right? mitt romney -- let's keep it right there. mitt romney wants your check back. we're going to be talking foreign policy -- the policy implications of mitt romney's trip to -- around the -- london, israel and poland, judd. but you reported on the reporter's not very happy with those who are following mitt romney. >> yep. >> bill: petting zoo. >> this is greta van susteren who generally is pretty sympathetic to the republicans. certainly not a liberal partisan. >> bill: fox news. >> fox news. and said she feels like she's in a petting zoo. i guess she went over there to interview romney. and then of course, this morning, there was a huge blowup with the reporters over there. getting told one of their aides told them to kiss my ass. i think you talked about that earlier. but i think it is a reflection of you can try to tightly manage these trips but at a certain point, there's going to be a level of frustration and you don't want the traveling press to turn on you. that's the thing. maybe you want to limit your questions and try t
john boehner wants your check back right? mitt romney -- let's keep it right there. mitt romney wants your check back. we're going to be talking foreign policy -- the policy implications of mitt romney's trip to -- around the -- london, israel and poland, judd. but you reported on the reporter's not very happy with those who are following mitt romney. >> yep. >> bill: petting zoo. >> this is greta van susteren who generally is pretty sympathetic to the republicans. certainly...
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. >> bill: the john boehner of men's tennis. there he is. lots to talk about. lots of good help to do it. judd legum, think progress, tuesdays with judd. he will be here in about a half hour from now. john stanton is the washington bureau chief of the exciting new site i consider. because it is just getting into politics. "buzzfeed." they're starting up a lot. make for great parties too. >> so i've heard. >> bill: the problem is the parties don't start until midnight. we miss them because we have to get up too damn early in the morning. we'll go out to chicago and talk to one of the leaders of the teacher's strike in chicago and find out what that's all about. and big news on don't ask don't tell. but first... >> this is the "full court press." >> other headlines making news on this tuesday seems the folks on mitt romney's web site team have no originality and find it easiest to copy other people's work and call it a day. they put up a new donation page yesterday which looks exactly like barack obama's donation page at barack obama.com. but folks at "buzzfeed"
. >> bill: the john boehner of men's tennis. there he is. lots to talk about. lots of good help to do it. judd legum, think progress, tuesdays with judd. he will be here in about a half hour from now. john stanton is the washington bureau chief of the exciting new site i consider. because it is just getting into politics. "buzzfeed." they're starting up a lot. make for great parties too. >> so i've heard. >> bill: the problem is the parties don't start until...
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and john boehner read the results. >> mitt romney has received 2,061 votes. [ cheers and applause ] >> bill: all right. so that's what they came to tampa for. it's too bad mitt romney didn't give the speech right then and there and thenen the convention. but we had to go through the big tra-la-la. chris christie grieving the keynote address. there is something about chris christie that i like, he usually says outrageous things and is usually very very colorful. i knew i would disagree with everything he would say, but i was ready for a barn burner. he was terrible. i really -- i really thought he was terrible. he spoke in nothing but platitude. he didn't say anything. he did look -- he just looked like a bus, you know. he is so big. >> i thought it was cruel that they had a game at the rnc guess how in jelly beans are inside chris christie. >> bill: i know. and my mother told me you can either be loved or respected, so it is better to be respected than loved or loved -- i mean i never got it. was stuff like this where he says here is what it is. i'm going to tell you the difference be
and john boehner read the results. >> mitt romney has received 2,061 votes. [ cheers and applause ] >> bill: all right. so that's what they came to tampa for. it's too bad mitt romney didn't give the speech right then and there and thenen the convention. but we had to go through the big tra-la-la. chris christie grieving the keynote address. there is something about chris christie that i like, he usually says outrageous things and is usually very very colorful. i knew i would...